When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.